About me

I am Anita Kumar..
I basically write in hindi. I have many friends who can not read or understand hindi. For their benefit and all others who may care to read it I am posting some of my writings in English.
I look forward to your feedback.....
I am thankful to Sagar Nahar for giving me technical support in creating and maintaining this blog

Sunday, February 10, 2008

This poem was written last year. Till last year I hade very rudimentary knowledge of computers and almost no knowledge of internet usage. Whenever I asked my son to show me how to use computers and he did show me, both of us lost patience with each other leading into tiffs and me into walking away in huff. One day I grumbled to my son that to call him I have to call out so many times that my throat gets soar.With a twinkle in his eyes, he teased me that I have a computer in my room and he has a laptop in his room, I have to just call him on chat and he will know that I am calling him. He knew very well that I do not know how to use internet. I told him okay show me how I can call you on chat. In a lighter vain, he created a profile for me on Orkut and showed me how I can chat on gtalk. I was excited because I was under impression that orkut is a site for youngsters and in my profile I had given my correct age, that is 52 years. Next day I was surprised to see an avlanche of friend's requests, mostly from youngsters from Hyderabad and Banglore( two IT hubs in South INdia).I was pleasantly surprised. I accepted the invitations but asked all these youngsters- are you sure you have not made any mistake, that you really want to be friends with a 52 year old lady(double their age) and that too a teacher..and they all said that age has nothing to do with friendship....when they kept interacting with me on regular basis, I was convinced that their answer was not just a polite reply, but they meant what they said....well, well, this came as a big surprise to me and something that changed me also from within.... It is on this background that I wrote the following poem....I am presenting English translation with original Hindi poem in Devnagari script also.

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comments:

As rightly commented by you about ORKUT, its a site for the youngsters and teenagers to make friends and chat and kill their time. But if you just enter into it, you will find that there are many friends, little like you said, who would be wanting to make friendship with the elders too, and sometimes for borrowing the shoulder of elderly people to cry upon, making fun, laughing to each other and many more good things. Inke saath kuchh kshan ke liye ji kar apne apne gum bhool jaate hai yah youngsters bhi and also the "BUDHAUS"........The only thing here is that you have to be like the people they are here, fun luving, sharing, kidding, giving helping hands to someone, in need..........

Anitaji,Namaskar.U are an inspiration to so many middle aged ladies who are at a stand still at this juncture of their lives.Grown up kids, ever busy husbands contribute little to boost their feelings.As for ur poem regarding orkut, I too went to such social sites and believe me at this age of 41 I am making new young friends everyday who seriously mean friendship and nothing else.

Got to this page via the SHTYLE .fmIm not yet greyed but going to...37 years now....was reading your poem on orkut,Being passionate on teaching ive created blogs for my student friends and also have an orkut id with friends, and at Shtyle create a few thought provoking quizzes....I did have the feeling how am I going to be with this generation and what you have said in your poem is the reality and ive relished it to the fullest extent....

You have said this very well....the only fear is that it gets addictive after some time.Just one comment: If you do an english translation at the end of the hindi one,it would be better to read.less distracting.rest upto you.Tc

I liked the poem ((Hindi version only)Somehow, I don't fancy translations of Hindi poems to English.

Even if you wanted to do it, I would have preferred reading the entire poem in Hindi without alternate lines in English. That was distracting. I would prefer putting the entire English translation separately in a parallel vertical column if you have the tools to do it or after the Hindi version.Anyway, it's just a formatting or presentation preference. This comment is no reflection on the quality of your thoughts and its poetic expression.